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The Vaccines Blasted Up Kuala Lumpur

The Vaccines Blasted Up Kuala Lumpur

Posted by Tami Sabran On January 13, 2013 0 Comment

The night started out with quite a buzz at The Bee, Publika, where the line-up already started hours before the show. It shows from the audience of that night, that The Vaccines’ intimate live concert was most definitely the it place of the week. Line-ups of overly-dressed pre-adolescent filled up the entrance, eager to finally witness The Vaccine’s first live show in Kuala Lumpur.

Entering the venue, the place reeked of four perfectly combined symbioses: excitement, nicotine, cheap liquor and pure youth. The mob was definitely ready to party on a gorgeous Friday night with the highly anticipated The Vaccines live concert. Chosen to be the opening act for Upfront’s yet another exhilarating show, The Rubens succeeded on heating up the stage for the crowd to cheer tremendously despite the fact that most of the people were singing along incoherently not knowing the words, but in the end it’s the enthusiasm that counts. The Rubens fascinated the crowd with eight songs from their self-titled album, including Best We Got, Be Gone, My Gun, Never Be The Same and Lay It Down. It is without a doubt that the newly formed band was about to gain new fans with their retro-indie sound.

After The Rubens’ exit, followed by a huge applaud, the night paused, leaving the crowd restless for The Vaccines to start. The thrill continued, and exploded after Árni Arnason (bass) entered the stage, followed by Pete Robertson (drums), Freddie Cowan (guitar) and Justin Young (vocals). Our four favorite Brit guys jump-started their arrival with No Hope, followed by Wreckin’ Bar Ra Ra, I Always Knew, Tiger Bloodand Under Ur Thumb. The night starts to unravel in sheer madness when they played Lack Of Understanding, the venue was echoed by the screams and chants from the hyped-up mass. The madness didn’t stop there; it escalated even greater when their infamous song Wet suit and Teenage Icon started playing, which has victoriously defined the theme of the night: a coming of age chapter.

Speaking of coming of age, The Vaccines also brought up some new songs from their new album, Come of Age, which was Aftershave Ocean and GhostTown. Though the pace of the gig was getting a tad bit predictable, Justin, none other but the delirious lead vocals, seems to have the flair to capitalize the crowd’s attention by maximizing the band’s performance, with Freddie’s fascination, Pete’s invigorating beats and Árni’s flawlessness. It was all about the energy with The Vaccines, the resurgence of guitar music era was felt in the air.

The lead singer then took a short interval by expressing the band’s sincerest excitement for being in Kuala Lumpur for the first time, described it, in his words, as “weird and f—ing amazing”, which got the mass even more electrified. Continuing with the music, Post-Breakup Sex was next in the setlist, and seemed to be a lot of people’s favorite that night since the screaming and the singing along was at its climax. After the band’s insane performance along with the stage’s seizure-like lightings, All In White and Blow It Up was brought by the band, concluded with the renowned and first single, If You Wanna.

Even though it was getting close to the end of the show, the crowd was not even close to getting tired from listening to the authentic audio played by the band. As an encore, The Vaccines performed three of their songs, Badmood, Wolfpack and Norgaard as the final song of the utterly fitted one-and-a-half-hour set. The Vaccine’s exit off the stage was tailed by a massive applaud, and with a hint of grief, knowing that the show was over. All in all, Upfront and The Bee has thriven on The Vaccine’s spectacular show, bringing the sound of 50’s rock and roll alive in Kuala Lumpur and leaving the crowd in a state of trance.